I think you might need to consider a "vintage" laptop. I have FreeDOS
installed on a Compaq Armada 1750 and using Mpxplay, the sound is amazing
through front/top firing speakers with side bass ports. I have yet to get
Qview configured properly, for sound, but since that is the case with every
PC I own, it must be me. The Compaq Armada has a PII 366 processor, 320MB
RAM, 800x600 graphics, ESS 1869 sound card, serial and parallel ports,
video out port, Keyboard in, PCMCIA II (works great with wired D-Link card
for FDNPKG install) and USB 1.1 as well as infrared transfer capabilities.
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Matej Horvat <matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si>
wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 14:39:29 +0100, Guillem <guilevi2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My problem is,
> > though, that being a quite modern HP computer made and bought in 2014,
> > it does not have a serial port. Under windows 8.1, I have used a
> > Prolific PL-2303 adapter. It works flawlessly and I can use all of the
> > serial features of the Braille ’n Speak with it. The thing is, I haven’t
> > seen any mention to this working under FreeDOS. Could anyone here tell
> > me if it is possible to use one of these adapters?
>
> The DOSUSB drivers by Georg Potthast include a driver which claims to
> support adapters with Prolific chipsets. I don't have such an adapter
> myself, so I don't know how well it works.
>
> > This brings me to my second question. The sound card. I am aware that
> > windows pretty much blocks out the PC speaker, even though I think my
> > computer has one. FreeDOS does allow it, I believe. What I don’t know is
> > if I’ll be able to actually somehow emulate a sound card, possibly a
> > Sound Blaster compatible one, with the integrated realtek one my PC has.
>
> There is a program called VSB which emulates a Sound Blaster and sends the
> output to the PC speaker or a Covox Speech Thing (which despite its name
> is only a digital-to-analog converter connected to the parallel port).
> However, it is only compatible with real mode software, and even then not
> all of it. The quality, of course, is not that great, but it is probably
> good enough for speech.
>
>
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